Invisible wrote:
> OK, so check this out... At home I have a wireless optical mouse. I've 
> had it for several years now, and it has always worked perfectly.
> 
> However, a few weeks ago I reinstalled Windoze. And ever since that 
> point in time, the mouse hasn't worked properly. Most of the time it 
> works normally, but every now and then it suddenly stops working 
> completely. The light on the base station still twinkles when I move it 
> or press the buttons, but the computer fails to respond. (Keyboard 
> commands work, just not mouse commands.)
> 
> The *only* thing that fixes this condition is a reboot. No amount of 
> reconnecting the USB cable has any effect.
> 
> Obviously, this is intensely frustrating, far beyond my powers of 
> description. Last night I was playing an official TF2 match, and my 
> mouse quit working. That means I now can't shoot, steer, look around, or 
> talk to my teammates over Ventrillo.
> 
> [In spite of this - and much to my amusement - I managed to actually 
> capture a control point. Basically I staggered in there sideways and 
> nobody tried to stop me. And my teammates had done almost all the work 
> first... Basically the two teams clashed, everybody died, and then I 
> stumbled in. What fluke!]
> 
> Anyway, does *anybody* have *any* idea why reinstalling Windoze has made 
> my mouse malfunction so badly??
> 

maybe this has something to do with it

http://www.neystadt.org/john/humor/IBM-Mouse-Balls.htm

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